Career Advice

Cathy Marie Ouellette offers the insights she has gained as a new department chair during the pandemic.

Ralph A. Gigliotti shares the results of a new study that reveals that the disruptions of the recent months have significantly exacerbated the challenges beleaguering department chairs.

Shoba Subramanian explores the professional challenges international grad students and postdocs continue to face -- and offers some advice to them as well as their academic colleagues.

Daisy Verduzco Reyes shares some of her own experiences to help reveal the institutionalized patterns and practices that people of color must often navigate.

Karin A. C. Johnson recommends five steps to take when negotiating the pay and benefits of a new job.

Eugenia Villa-Cuesta, a biology professor, explains how improv training rescued her in the classroom.

Byron Stewart describes how he uses shortcuts to help build classroom community and help students who are strangers become a close-knit team.

When forced to furlough or lay off faculty, college leaders must avoid an overly procedural process and instead take three steps to follow an ethic of care, write Kiernan Mathews and Mai Hu Vang.